Wednesday, December 17, 2014

The Egoslavian December 17 Post Since 2010!

Beefheart died four years ago today. Have I ever mentioned I love Beefheart? Innermost
rotation My Silly Ass Deserted Island Five Game. The Blegsylvanian December 17 post since 2010. Most of the boatload of youtubes still work, many if
not most of the links below and in links to links below don't. Fuck the
it.

This paragraph is 2014: I mentioned Zappadan yesterday because one
of it's originators, after a hiatus from all things Blegsylvanian,
reappeared in Blogroll Moribund, and there are multiple issues and
angles bleggalgazing I am sure to torture that will appear here or
elsewhere soon enough (the below is a first draft) as a result, but I also mentioned Zappadan because I remembered today was the anniversary of Beefhearts's death, and, as I mention somewhere in the posts linked above, the connection between Zappa and Beefheart needs addressing. As for the bleggalgazing, this: Fellow Motherfuckers, be Kind.

Our nutcase elites. People have been commenting along the lines of imagine if North Korea had made a movie about assassinating Obama. A better line is imagine if North Korea had made a movie about assassinating a Republican president popular on his party's right.

End of the Year Reading Lists and Porn: It isn’t so clear to me, however, why the aesthetic effect of porn and
end-of-the-year reading lists should be so close to the same on me. I
mean, masturbation can be a whole lot of fun and all, but there haven’t
been (m)any times in my life where a real human woman has wanted to have
sex with me but I thought I’d prefer to rub one out on my own. Books,
on the other hand, though they lack many of the virtues of real humans,
do have the substantive advantage that they are never too tired or too
busy; they never have a headache; they never tell you that they are no
longer attracted to you or were never attracted to you in the first
place. I can’t have sex whenever I want, so masturbation, so porn. I can
read whenever I want, so why don’t I? The substitutive function of
pornography, in other words, is clear to me, while the substitutive
function of reading about reading in a way that doesn’t feel like
reading isn’t.